China's State Council, or cabinet, on Sunday issued the General Work Plan for Energy Conservation and Pollutant Discharge Reduction, urging governments at all levels and companies around the country to "earnestly" implement it.

The major targets of the General Work Plan for the year 2010 include:

-- Energy consumption per 10,000-yuan of gross domestic product reduced from 1.22 tons of standard coal in 2005 to below one ton, down by about 20 percent;

-- Water consumption per unit of industrial value added reduced by 30 percent;

-- Discharge of major pollutants reduced by 10 percent;

-- Discharge of sulfur dioxide reduced from 25.49 million tons in 2005 to 22.95 million tons;

-- Chemical oxygen demand (COD) reduced from 14.14 million tons in 2005 to 12.73 million tons;

-- The ratio of national urban treated sewage reaching at least 70 percent;

-- The ratio of comprehensive utilization of industrial solid wastes reaching 60 percent or more.

Source: Xinhua